Tag: .NET

How Software Design has changed in the Cloud Through the years I have adapted to the technologies and tool sets available. In this video I wanted to share with you a story from a point in time where I noticed that there was a scale change taking place. Horizontal Scale: Cost Vs Performance I…

Simply Testing Software When teams form to release software, they have to determine what level of testing is going to be done; and how it is going to be done. If I boil down what I have learned over the years is that you really need to cherry-pick the type of testing. I recommend taking…

Single Point of Failure When moving workloads onto the cloud it is important to address any single points of failure to ensure that you minimize downtime, and enable minimum time to recovery. Eventual Consistency Eventual consistency enables many large scale web applications the ability to ensure up-time, and can lessen the need for high cost…

Welcome to our weekly MVP series where we discuss some of the most useful solutions, tips & tricks and how to’s on integrating OSS & Microsoft technologies. In case you have any questions, don’t hesitate and drop us a comment below or reach out to us via Twitter and Facebook! Enjoy! Over the last few years, we…

Welcome to our weekly MVP series where we discuss some of the most useful solutions, tips & tricks and how to’s on integrating OSS & Microsoft technologies. In case you have any questions, don’t hesitate and drop us a comment below or reach out to us via Twitter and Facebook! Enjoy! With the official release…

Configuration In this video I quickly go through how I set up configuration for the projects that I work on. I go through the reasons why I have come to only using configuration when the value needs to change depending on environment. Queue: Competing Consumers Pattern The competing consumer pattern is a basic queuing…

Deployment Cadence During my last start-up our team started extremely lean. We utilized Azure Web Apps and wanted to build our site fast, and respond to user feedback in near real-time. By using Git (GitHub) as our deployment mechanism and Web Apps, 2 of us were able to push upwards of 220 builds to production…

Cloud: High Entropy Systems A mad dash through computer history, and onto why high entropy systems work well in cloud environments. I outline a few reasons why entropy is important and summarize why as an industry are looking at breaking down systems into small pieces, such as the introduction of micro-services. And a couple real…

Data Platform Choices Understanding what options you have to store your data is critical. At a high level this video tries to simplify and layout of Data Systems SQL databases Object data stores (NoSQL) Table data stores (NoSQL) Binary data stores (NoSQL) My Scalability Secret The one thing that we never talk about is the human element…

General Project Layout My general thoughts that guide me in deciding which services to use and also how to structure the code projects to add the most value to the project. PaaS over IaaS Projects layout & SDK’s Dequeue Dynamics A deeper look into dequeuing; this wraps three key elements to ensuing scale while…